What was life like in the Stone Age?

In India, the Bhimbetka rock shelters show the earliest signs of human life in the region. They are almost 30,000 years old. Some researchers have discovered Stone Age art in European caves. The inside walls of the cave are adorned with paintings of animals like horses, deer, and mammoths. read more

In this lesson we will learn about the Stone Age, and what life was like for the early humans who lived in this time period. The Stone Age The period known as the Stone Age began some 2.5 million years ago, and is known for early man's use of tools and weapons made of stone. read more

We generally divide the stone age into three eras, the Paleolithic (old stone age) Mesolithic (middle stone age) and Neolithic (new/late stone age). These definitions relate to different stages of in the development of human society, and so in different parts of the world these different stages happened at different times because of the different environmental conditions in each place. read more